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Yesterday I received a notification that one of my submissions to http://connect.microsoft.com had received a comment. Nothing unusual about that, I receive those sorts of emails every day, on this occasion however the comment was actually worth reading. Read More...

One thing that has always infuriated me about SSIS is the fact that every package has three different type systems; to give you an idea of what I am talking about consider the following: The SSIS dataflow's type system is made up of types called DT_* Read More...

Todd Mcdermid spoke recently on his blog post Integration Services vNext Coming Soon about how some recently closed Connect items had encouraged him as to the future of SSIS. Also, Matt Masson from the SSIS team has written a similarly encouraging blog Read More...

I have recently discovered what I believe to be a bug in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2008 and am taking the opportunity herein to warn about it so that nobody else gets stung by it. The bug concerns the use of Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) Read More...